Identification Help For A Few World Stamps

I am pretty good at identifying world stamps. However, I use Scott catalogs and they do not list everything. I do not fully know about these items.









Any information on these is appreciated.

The one in the bottom scan, with the windmill, is a Spanish charity label, I believe. Not listed in Scott or Edifil, as far as I know.

I'll try to help you:

1/2.- Telegraph, Canada (?)
3.- Canada 1914/1918 War Tax
4.- South Australia Duty stamp
5.- Albania Aerial semi-postal
6.- Early XX century Russia
7.- Bavaria. I don't know the o.p.
8.- Mozambique Portugal Colony
9.- UK Private OP
10/11.- Mauritania French Colony 1940/44 semi-postal
12.- Spain 1950/1980 Charity stamp for PO orphans.
13.- Würtemberg (old German state) Railway stamp.
14.- like nr. 6

Here's my 2c,

#1 and #2 are not Canada, but some other commonwealth countries Telephone/Telegraph.
#3 is Canada 1915 George V War Tax stamp, FWT8 (E.S.J. Van Dam, Revenue Catalog), used $0.10.

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The top two are telegraph stamps from Ceylon with part cancellations of Jaffna and Trincomalee,

The Canadian stamp is a "War Tax" one that is listed in the Van Dam Revenue Catalogue of Canada.

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Bujutsu

The two eagle stamps (#6 & #14) are from the Russian Civil War "Western Army" (listed in Scott under "Russian Occupation of Latvia" which is a bit misleading).

#9 is a British "commercial overprint" for revenue use by Frinton & Walton Urban District Council in Essex on bills/invoices etc.

#10 & #11 are Vichy government issues for Mauritania.

The Bavaria is a postage due, somewhere 1870's to 1900. There are watermark and perf varieties which make exact i.d. impossible from the scan (for me, at least).

These responses are helping a lot. Thanks all.

Whoops on the Mauritania! I had that one in a pile of unknowns from many years ago. I now see the Scott gives these catalog numbers B15A and B15B. This sounds like catalog additions to me.

That Russian Occupation of Latvia also was really helpful. Turns out I had around 15 from there.

That Mozambique stamp had me stumped, but now I feel like an idiot because it seems so obvious.

I'm thrilled to ID the Bavaria and the Wurtemmberg one would have stumped me forever. BTW, what is a railway stamp?

i was really really impressed with the ID on the Ceylon telegraphs and their city of cancel. Any idea why both of these seem to be cut off?

That Albania one still bothers me. Is it listed in any catalog?

The Ceylon Telegraphs are (now) listed in Gibbons. These are SG T47 and T51 respectively. The used halves like these are priced at £5 each in the 2013 Gibbons Commonwealth catalogue.

The original stamps were twice the length. One half of the stamp was supposed to be attached to the original telegraph form, the other half was on the customer receipt. I don't have any examples from Ceylon - it's outside the area I collect - but here is an example of a similar type of Telegraph stamp, from Jammu & Kashmir, at the other end of the Subcontinent:

The Albania is not listed in my 1946 Sanabria Airmail Catalogue, which is the usual place I would expect to find worldwide semi-official airmails.

The Albania stamp isn't an official issue. It's a propaganda label from a "government in exile" from around 1945.

I didn't go as far as 1945 in Sanabria, so I shouldn't say it is not in there. But if it never even made it to semi-official, it won't surprise me if it isn't there. (Plus, my Sanabria is 1946, so it might have missed an editorial cutoff, in any event.)